You probably know that I’ve been working on a free and open source reader named Evergreen. Evergreen 1.0 will be renamed NetNewsWire 5.0 — in other words, I’ve been working on NetNewsWire 5.0 all this time without knowing it!

This move back to RSS or feeds in general was a side-effect of getting away from Twitter. Wanting to get away from Twitter was… it’s not important. The end result is that i send less time being interrupted driven, but also miss more things that might be interesting.

My move to Mastodon is a rather lonely affair – without millions of users it lacks the essential “reach” that motivates people’s engagement with Twitter. In order to keep up with friends on Twitter, but without the Twitter “drama”, i’m using TwitRSS.me to scrape RSS feeds.

The RSS returned is a little funky, but Evergreen is doing a reasonable job of rendering. There seem to be alternatives (RSSHub, FetchRSS, etc), although none of them seems to be focused on keeping Twitter at arms length.

Anyway, it’s nice the NetNewsWire is coming back, and if we’re lucky some renewed interest in RSS in general.